How we cite our quotes: (Chapter. Paragraph)
Quote #7
But every book I picked up had few sentences which didn't contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I just skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said. So I had come to the Norfolk Prison Colony still going through only book-reading motions. (11.21)
Malcolm X sounds like a kid who doesn't want to study for his midterms here. Remember guys: the dictionary is your friend.
Quote #8
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. (11.57)
Two words: Reading Rainbow.
Quote #9
I don't think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. Where else but in a prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day? (11.60)
When Malcolm X was isolated from all of his hustler friends in prison, he was able to focus on studying. He managed to get himself an education before you could get a college degree in prison.